Between a barrage of raging proto-punk and spacey experimental soundscapes, this emphatic trio will take both your mind and body on a trip. With every EP or cassette release, they tread ever-closer to their garage rock and free jazz roots. -- eor

These snotty Vancouverites revisit the raw, messy, and in your face grittiness of proto-punk. Distilling the MC5’s stormy energy into wild oblivion, you'll have to crowd-surf your way into catching them on their first Canadian tour. — GJ

When not performing with Owen Pallett, Thomas Gill nurtures a very special, very personal bedroom project.  Thomas channels Prince's smooth, swaggering pop with a fresh, bizarre, hollow twist.  Some call it "post-smooth," I just call it "excellent." — GJ

You’ve seen their faces in about a million other bands, and the years of experience pay off with exceptionally tight and engaging moments of sweet and sour melancholy. Both intense and removed, Silver Dapple tap into the shoegaze wall-of-sound strain pioneered by My Bloody Valentine, yet remain vividly original. — GJ